{"id":211969,"date":"2026-05-28T17:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-lobs-accusation-at-iran-and-threat-at-oman-with-peace-talks-in-limbo-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:47:13","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-lobs-accusation-at-iran-and-threat-at-oman-with-peace-talks-in-limbo-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-lobs-accusation-at-iran-and-threat-at-oman-with-peace-talks-in-limbo-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: president lobs accusation at Iran and threat at Oman with peace talks in limbo – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump claims Iran intends to wait until US midterm elections in the hope of getting better deal \u2013 key US politics stories from Wednesday, 27 May
Donald Trump<\/a> has accused Iran of trying to stall on making a peace agreement by running down the clock before November\u2019s US midterm elections in the hope of getting better terms.
\u201cThey thought they were going to outwait me, you know, \u2018we\u2019ll out-wait him, he\u2019s got the midterms\u2019,\u201d the US president told a meeting of his cabinet at the White House on Wednesday.
He insisted the approach \u2013 supposedly aimed at ratcheting up pressure on the US and global economies by keeping the strategically vital strait of Hormuz closed \u2013 would fail, and claimed that Iran \u201cwants very much to make a deal\u201d.
\u201cI don\u2019t care about the midterms. Look what happened last night,\u201d Trump said, an apparent reference to the triumph of Ken Paxton, whom he had endorsed, over the sitting Republican senator John Cornyn in the Texas Republican Senate primary.
Trump said the Iranian economy was in free fall, suggesting that made it imperative for Iran to compromise: \u201cThey have 250% inflation, their money has no value, their whole economic system is broken down.\u201d
His comments, at the 12th cabinet meeting of Trump\u2019s second term, came as talks aimed at ending the near-three-month conflict are said to be at a crucial stage. Current attempts to reach a deal had so far failed, he claimed, because \u201cwe\u2019re not satisfied with it\u201d.
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Republican leaders rushed to throw their weight behind Ken Paxton<\/a> following his big primary victory in Texas over the four-term US senator John Cornyn amid anxiety within the party over his prospects in November\u2019s general election.
Hours after the race was called, Donald Trump<\/a> \u2013 who backed Paxton, despite intense concern among establishment Republicans \u2013 on Truth Social attacked Paxton\u2019s Democratic rival in the midterm elections.
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Protests against immigration enforcement at a facility where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike erupted in fresh violence on Tuesday night as federal officers sprayed chemicals and charged demonstrators outside the jail in New Jersey<\/a>.
Following hours of relative quiet, a day after masked and armored Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE<\/a>) personnel pepper-sprayed US senator Andy Kim<\/a>, tension ramped up again outside the Delaney Hall facility on the fifth day of the strike.
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Donald Trump wrote in a social media post it was \u201ccritically important\u201d that the federal government retain control over the multibillion-dollar prediction market industry, as he cast a critical eye on state attempts to impose new restrictions.
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The Trump administration<\/a> has threatened to stop processing international flights in major cities around the country as a reaction to protests against immigration enforcement.
Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, said during an interview with Fox News on Tuesday that the administration is \u201cdrawing up plans\u201d to take the action, in response to days of clashes at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE<\/a>) detention center in New Jersey.
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The day before Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s first term ended in 2021, he inked a pardon for Elliott Broidy, a scandal-plagued Republican fundraiser and former Republican National Committee official who had pleaded guilty three months earlier to trying to illegally lobby Trump and his administration.
Last month, a company headed by Broidy won a $106m contract from the Department of Justice, according to federal contracting records.
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US importers are expected to receive $85bn in tariff refunds<\/a><\/strong> after the supreme court struck down Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s tariffs in February, according to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the agency that collects tariffs.
Jill Biden<\/a> said she had been \u201cfrightened\u201d as she watched Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s faltering performance during his 2024 presidential debate, and thought her husband might have suffered a stroke<\/a><\/strong>.
Joe Biden<\/a>, the former president, has filed a lawsuit to try to prevent the justice department (DoJ) from releasing transcripts and audio of interviews that exposed his frequent memory lapses<\/a><\/strong> and helped derail his 2024 re-election campaign.
Three Democratic state attorneys general said their deputies were turned away from a roundtable hosted by JD Vance on Tuesday<\/a><\/strong>, sowing confusion about what the White House has billed as a bipartisan crackdown on fraud.
The Trump administration<\/a> is building a quarantine and treatment center in Kenya for Americans affected by the Ebola outbreak<\/a><\/strong>, instead of bringing them home.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened Tuesday, 26 May<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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